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pyvpx
12y ago
some folks much smarter than I thought it best to proverbially take it out back and shoot it. if you're not familiar with it already, the left overs are called LibreSSL.
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pyvpx
13y ago
what people seem to gloss over is he/they had good friends at Voxel (iirc) which was a growing CDN. they gave him bandwidth on the cheap in the hopes they're traffic would surge. it did, and everyone was happy. if imageshack could
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pyvpx
13y ago
how about they each chip in $10K each year for OpenSSH?
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pyvpx
13y ago
I'm sorry; I think you meant to suggest we pool our pocket change and hire a lobbying firm. A fax and email campaign is going to do what? waste toner and mailstore space?
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pyvpx
13y ago
something tells me a similar snafu made by a CS student would get "fairly rude" comments in reply by any competent instructor or advisor.
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pyvpx
13y ago
yeah, I'd be grumpy too if everyone uses your SSH implementation and can't even be arse'd to buy a friggin' CD or a t-shirt...then pooh-pooh the entire OpenBSD project, probably over that very SSH implementation. don
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pyvpx
13y ago
I don't know -- why don't you try reasoning it out since you're the one lobbing the accusation. Upon a very simple review of the code change/patch, one can see this is a relatively new feature, agreed upon and passed by
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pyvpx
13y ago
the rate should be a function of internet users/devices. ICQ (aka 1998) was a very different time in terms of total internet devices and users.
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pyvpx
13y ago
perhaps I've yet to find a sufficient answer? ;)
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pyvpx
13y ago
and one of them is returning bogus junk. why should they (the NSP) care? especially if you aren't paying them for a network service? it's not hijacking -- 4.2.2.2 isn't a public resolver and never was. it just happened to bec
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pyvpx
13y ago
the NSA is the one installing the taps. CIA tried to do a radio tower once -- or maybe that was the FBI. anyway, when it comes to sigint, it's NSA all day every day.
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pyvpx
13y ago
does bitcoin have an intrinsic value? if so, what?
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pyvpx
13y ago
less stable than release? that's news to me. have any official wording to back that up? I'm intensely curious
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pyvpx
13y ago
all I want to say on this (to me, tiresome) topic is: if you or your company (especially if that is one and the same!!!!1) have ever used OpenSSH you should at the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM buy a damn CD. you really ought to donate a solid hundred i
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pyvpx
13y ago
when I buy a service I don't expect a business partner. I'm not sure why other people do -- anyone got some good reading on this (admittedly nebulous) topic?
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pyvpx
13y ago
privacy is dead. if you're going to do something that might raise the ire of someone sophisticated, don't do it online with your true and/or trusted persona. now if you're complaining the waterline for "sophisticate
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pyvpx
13y ago
the customers got something out of it too, no?
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pyvpx
13y ago
without knowing how the country is determined, how can you be exactly sure what it is? maybe many wealthy nigerians are in new york and have uber installed?
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pyvpx
13y ago
like the kind HSBC did in plain sight for over a decade with essentially zero repercussions (the fine was barely enough to break out of 'cost of doing business' territory, so please don't bother with the largest settlement in
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pyvpx
13y ago
what are the VISA requirements like for someone from a western country (say, the US or Canada)? If I wanted to live in Germany for a full year, is there a way to do so working independently (i.e. without a German corporation sponsoring a wo
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pyvpx
13y ago
you can understand why "they" can't do that by doing a little reading on how those routers and switches you work with actually route IP packets.
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pyvpx
13y ago
.255 is just as valid a host address as .1 is, and being used is just that: used!
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pyvpx
13y ago
you're equating bitcoin ownership to tax evasion? you can't pay taxes in bitcoins. the only novelty that would come out of such a situation (person allegedly dodged taxes, stored the 'ill gotten gains' as bitcoins) was t
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pyvpx
13y ago
congrats on reaching your deadline, but now you've shot yourself in the foot in another way by tarnishing the..."brand", for want of a better term. you can pat yourself on the back for hitting your target date without having
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pyvpx
13y ago
yeah, these days any one promoting the Constitution and the values contained therein are anti-US /s
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pyvpx
13y ago
yeah guys. let's all calm down. the status quo is just fine. this guy is just an aberration. /s
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pyvpx
13y ago
I just want to be absolutely clear...did you compare non-GPL licenses to slavery?
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pyvpx
13y ago
> They're pretty much just defending that it's legal, which I think we can all sadly admit is true. I just don't think it's right, our government should not be keeping that kind of records on its citizens, or anyone.
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13y ago
bin laden & co. knew the NSA process took 72 hours and adjusted their communications accordingly. the operational aspects (read: deficiencies) of many "important" monitoring functions is widely known by those who "need&qu
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pyvpx
13y ago
do you have any good tips/links/search terms to find this tonnage of papers? I'm curious.
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